Pulmonary Department

2285.1 miles away
310-829-8618
Fax: 310-829-8607
Mon - Fri: 7:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Pulmonary Department

Mon - Fri: 7:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Our Approach

As a patient at Providence Saint John’s Health Center, you'll receive personalized care in a tranquil healing environment that’s designed to improve your quality of life. Since 1942, we’ve been serving both patients from Santa Monica and westside Los Angeles County – in addition to patients who travel from all over the world – to receive our top-quality, award-winning care.

About Our Pulmonary Care

At Providence Saint John’s Cardiothoracic Outpatient Clinic, our pulmonary department offers a specialized program that uses advanced methods, such as robotic navigational bronchoscopy, to check the lungs and airways. This helps us find and treat various lung problems – from pneumonia and lung infections to lung nodules and cancer.

Pulmonary Conditions We Treat

We offer complete care for patients with any kind of lung condition, even the most complex, including:

  • Asthma
  • Bronchial/tracheal stenosis
  • Bronchiectasis
  • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
  • Cystic Fibrosis
  • Emphysema
  • Interstitial lung disease
  • Lung cancer
  • Pleural disease
  • Pneumonia/infectious disease of the lung
  • Pulmonary hypertension
  • Pulmonary nodule
  • Sleep apnea
  • Tracheobronchomalacia

Testing and Diagnostics for Pulmonary Care

Our pulmonologists use advanced tests to correctly diagnose lung problems. These results help them choose the most effective, individualized treatment for each patient.

Some of these diagnostic tests include: 

  • EBUS bronchoscopy
  • Flexible bronchoscopy
  • Lung biopsy
  • Rigid bronchoscopy
  • Robotic navigational bronchoscopy

Treatments for Pulmonary Issues

At Providence Saint John’s Health Center, our team of lung specialists offer a variety of procedures – from well-known, trusted methods to advanced robotic surgeries – to develop a tailor, individual care plan for each patient. We ensure that you get the most effective treatment for your lung problems to ease day-to-day activities and help you breathe more comfortably.

These treatments include:

  • Ablation — cryoablation, laser ablation, argon plasma ablation
  • Airway dilation and stenting
  • Bronchial thermoplasty
  • Bronchoscopic lung volume reduction
  • Foreign body removal
  • Percutaneous tracheostomy
  • Pleural catheter

Choosing Providence Saint John’s for Your Lung Care

As part of a top-tier research institute, we provide the most innovative treatment in the comfort of your local community hospital.

While we are committed to serving our local communities, we also welcome patients from around the world who want to receive exceptional pulmonary care from Providence Saint John's.

We are pioneers in test and treatment development for common and complex lung problems, including:

  • Robotic navigational bronchoscopy: This method helps diagnose lung cancer and other lung diseases more accurately. It is especially good for examining small spots in the lungs that are difficult to reach.
  • Bronchoscopy lung volume reduction: This option is less invasive compared to surgery. It involves placing a one-way valve that allows air to exit from the most overinflated areas of the lungs. This helps reduce lung volume and ease breathing, which improves quality of life, the ability to exercise, and overall lung function for some patients with emphysema, a chronic lung disease.

Putting our patients first leads to the best outcomes. We also know, and research has shown, that early detection and treatment of lung cancer can save lives. From a lung cancer screening program for early detection, to our lung nodule program that helps you keep a close eye on your condition over time, our care covers every part of your medical journey.

We also give each of our patients a nurse navigator. This nurse helps guide you, assists you in making informed decisions about your treatment, and offers both physical and emotional support throughout your care.

Providence Saint John’s Health Center is home to some of the top lung specialists in the Los Angeles area. Our doctors are board-certified pulmonologists with specialties in critical care and sleep medicine. We care for you as a team, which includes our lung doctors, heart and lung surgeons, imaging experts, cancer specialists and critical care doctors, along with nurse navigators. Our team focuses on using less-invasive methods whenever possible to get better results and help you recover faster.

At Providence Saint John’s, we dedicate ourselves to providing the best care to everyone in our diverse community. We respect and support the racial, ethnic, religious, gender, sexual and spiritual identities of each of our patients.

We offer translation services for our non-English-speaking patients, telehealth options and stroke educational programs within our community. In keeping with Providence’s Mission, we also offer financial assistance programs that provide free and low-cost care to those who are eligible.

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